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Quotes by Don Herold

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”

“Babies are such a nice way to start people”

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”

“Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.”

“Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.”

“Dont ever slam a door; you might want to go back”

“Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace”

“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”

“There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have”

“A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it”

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow”

“Theres one thing about baldness - its neat”

“The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice”

“Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are”

“Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people”

“A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right”

“I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldnt have been supplanted by phonographs.”

“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but Id have fewer imaginary ones.”

“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”

“I say, lets banish bridge. Lets find some pleasant way of being miserable together.”